Safety-pocket



C. A. MASAITIS. SAFETY POCKET.

APPLICATION FILED MAR 27, i920.

Pat nted Mar. 1921.

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CHARLES A. MASAITIS, OF LINCdLN, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO JOSEPH (J. SINKIEWICZ, OF LINCOLN, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

SAFETY-POCKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 27, 1920. Serial No. 369,203. V

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. MASAITIS, a citizen of Lithuania, residing at Lincoln, county of Grafton, and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Pockets, of which with an inner or supplementary pocket the entrance to which will be closed when the supplementary pocket is positioned inside the main pocket.

For further comprehension of the. invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claims in which the various novel features of the invention are more clearly set forth.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view of a pair of trousers having the invention embodied in the pockets thereof.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary perspective view showing the pocket with the supplementary pocket inside.

Fig. 3 is a similar view with the supplementary pocket turned out.

Fig. 4 is a side view of the pocket as shown in Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a detail section through the pocket In the drawings the waist portion of a pair of trousers is shown at 10, the legs being indicated at 11, the usual or any desired number of pockets being provided. Each pocket comprises a main pocket 13 which is constructed as usual with an entrance opening 14; adapted to be covered by a flap 15 in which is a button-hole 16.

Secured inside the main pocket just below the entrance 14 is the supplementary pocket which has the top edge of its inner wall 18 stitched to the material, as at 18' (Fig. 2) just below the entrance opening or mouth. The outer wall 19 of this supplementary pocket is of slightly less height than the inner wall so as to be accommodated beneath the stitched top edge of the inner wall 18 and it will be obvious that the entrance or mouth of this inner pocket will be closed by the top edge of its inner wall and that access to such inner pocket while the latter 1s in position in the main pocket will be impossible. To keep the pockets closed a button 20 is preferably sewed on the inner wall 18 of the supplementary pocket and passed through registering button-holes 21 in theouter wall of the pocket and in the cloth of the trou- Patented Mar. 1, 1921.

ers, this buttonalso being adapted to have the flap 15 buttoned thereover.

As will be apparent rolls of'bills or the like can be carried in the supplementary pocket without danger of removal bypickpockets while to remove the contents of this pocket it is only necessary to pull it' out through the entrance or mouth of the main pocket to the position shown in Fig. 4, which leaves the mouth pocket exposed. I

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows 1. In a garment, a main pocket, and a sup supplementary pocket, and a button at-' tached to said inner wall of the suppleof the supplementary mentary pocket, the outerwalls of said'main and supplementary pockets havingbuttonholes formed therein to receive saidbutton.

2. In a garment, a main pocket, a supplementary pocket, in said main pocket, said supplementary pocket having its inner wall extended upwardly beyond the outer wall and havingsuch upwardly projecting portion attached to the outer wall of the main pocket just below the mouth of the latter,

a flap for covering the mouth of the main pocket, and a button attached to the inner wall of said supplementary pocket and passing through buttonholes in the outer walls thereto.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature.

' CHARLES' A. MASAITIS. 

